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Synonyms for malignant
məˈlɪg nəntma·lig·nant

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. malignantadjective

    Antonyms:
    benign

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. malignantadjective

    dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)

    Antonyms:
    benign

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  1. lethal

    Submitted by rinat on May 31, 2023  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. malignantadjective

    Synonyms:
    malign, MALICIOUS, malevolent

  2. malignantadjective

    Synonyms:
    (Med.) dangerous, fatal

PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "malignant":

    maligne, vicious, malins, malign, malicious, smart, clever, cancerous, evil, pernicious, crafty

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD1.5 / 2 votes

  1. malignant

    Synonyms:
    Oncology Cancerous

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How to use malignant in a sentence?

  1. Barbra Streisand:

    The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

  2. Sean Hannity:

    Tonight, at least one thing has become very clear – the Biden administration does not plan to hold China responsible for anything, patience for China, but not the Keystone pipeline. Clearing a relationship with the malignant regime – the hostile regime that they are – that infected the world with Covid-19 – is more important to Biden.

  3. Ted Nelson:

    Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong

  4. Lion Shahab:

    For now, linking a rise in malignant brain tumors to mobile phone usage remains speculative and should not detract from encouraging lifestyle changes which are known to reduce cancer risk, such as adopting a healthy diet, reducing alcohol consumption and stopping smoking.

  5. Charles Robert Darwin:

    The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.


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